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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold	comment	The Spy Who Came In from the Cold is the third novel by John le Carré, published in 1963 as a direct sequel to Call for the Dead.After the death of a number of British-run agents in East Berlin, SIS officer and head of Berlin station Alec Leamas is recalled to London by the head of the service, Control. When Leamas refuses a demotion, Control then suggests to him a plan to bring about the downfall of Hans-Dieter Mundt, the East German Intelligence officer who killed Leamas's agents. But the mission is not what it seems...Reflecting the cold and somewhat inhuman nature of intelligence work at the height of the Cold War, the novel suggests that the difference between the Western intelligence agencies and their opponents was very little indeed, with both resorting to underhanded methods to achieve their aims, and that the West was waging the Cold War via means that were incompatible with liberal democracy.A screen adaptation, directed by Martin Ritt and starring Richard Burton as Leamas, was released in 1965.
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: For its era, anyhow. Unlike James Bond novels, this book tries hard to prevent spydom from looking glamourous.
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: Not in this story, but the story inflicts one on Le Carre's first Smiley novel, Call for the Dead, in which the primary antagonist, Mundt, is mentioned as having evaded the British authorities and returned to East Germany. In this novel, The Reveal is that Mundt was in fact captured and turned into a double agent.
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_216dab44	type	Framing the Guilty Party
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_216dab44	comment	Framing the Guilty Party: Done many times, with many victims. The Circus tempts the East Germans to recruit Leamas by dramatically dismissing him as an embittered, unreliable drunk whose loyalties are wearing thin, which isn't too far from the truth. To make the ruse extra-convincing, Leamas gets himself arrested and does a stint behind bars. It happens again once Leamas is in the field: Mundt really is a British double agent and Control had sabotaged Leamas's mission to frame Mundt from the start, betting that being the target of a seemingly incompetent frame-up would put Mundt beyond suspicion and let him keep working for MI-6. Mundt himself pulls this off. Fiedler was secretly plotting against Mundt. It's just that Fiedler had been doing this because he suspected that Mundt had been working for the British. Mundt arranges things so that when Fiedler's plans are revealed, they look like a selfish attempt to backstab a superior.
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Leamas gives a speech to Liz on how spies use and are used by each other, and are not glamorous world defenders/destroyers at all but are morally weak people trying to stay alive. The film version, which is the quote at the top of this page, is arguably worse: it has Nan (Liz renamed in the film) ask whether the whole operation benefited the heroes or villains, and an upset Leamas tells her there are no good or bad sides or even sides at all; everyone’s just out for an advantage over someone else and will lie, manipulate and destroy each other to get it, no matter if it even benefits them anyway because that’s part of the espionage trade.
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_221a4bf4	type	Iconic Sequel Character
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_221a4bf4	comment	Iconic Sequel Character: Control, the ruthlessly cunning head of the Circus, makes his first appearance in this book, replacing the previous novels' ineffectual Maston.
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_234fa9ba	type	Mayâ€“December Romance
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_234fa9ba	comment	May–December Romance: Leamas is a divorcé in his late forties, with two adult children. Liz Gold is in her early 20s.
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_2e8441c9	type	The Bad Guy Wins
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_2e8441c9	comment	The Bad Guy Wins: At the end of the book, thanks to Control, Mundt has utterly destroyed Fiedler's evidence against him, Fiedler is probably going to be executed, and to tie up lose ends, Liz and Leamas have been shot dead trying to cross the Berlin Wall. It gets worse. The 2017 novel A Legacy of Spies reveals that shortly after Mundt is summoned to Moscow and is never seen again, implying that the mole uncovered in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy blew him to the KGB.
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: Control's plan for dealing with Mundt rests on the assumptions that Fiedler hates Mundt and will jump at the opportunity to bring him down, that the East Germans distrust the British so much that if the Circus outs Mundt as a British double agent, the Stasi will readily suspect that it is a frame-up, and that Fiedler as a Jew will be an easy scapegoat for the still-antisemitic East Germans.
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Poor Liz.
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_4bfcfa7c	type	Kansas City Shuffle
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_4bfcfa7c	comment	Kansas City Shuffle: See the aforementioned Batman Gambit. The East Germans expect British subterfuge and the Circus knows that Fiedler is catching on to Mundt's duplicity, so Control sets up a sham mission to expose Mundt as a British asset but then blows the lid on their own operation, letting the East Germans think they've outfoxed the Circus when in fact this leaves Mundt free to keep spying for the British, and more secure than he was before.
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_4de1a4f7	comment	Improvised Weapon: Leamas manages to kill a Stasi guardsman with a wooden matchbox.
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Mundt and Control have won, Fiedler is probably going to be killed, Mundt has arranged Liz's death, and Leamas lets the East German Grenztruppen kill him out of despair. The later Cerebus Retcon makes it even worse! Control's plan didn't work out - Haydon gave Mundt to the KGB.
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: George Smiley appears a lot less humane and quite ruthless in his supporting role. The novel does explain that he'd left the Circus due to moral issues, and that Control had left him in the dark over the nastier aspects of this particular mission. It goes beyond George Smiley. The Quest for Karla depicts Peter Guillam as Smiley's most beloved protegé, who is absolutely loyal and grateful to Smiley. Putting Call for the Dead together with this book, it is implied that he helped his boss's attempted murderer escape Britain.
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The books starts and finishes with an attempt to cross the Berlin Wall. Both are failures. And more than that - both involve the spy getting an innocent woman murdered too.
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_581f6468	type	Hero of Another Story
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_581f6468	comment	Hero of Another Story: George Smiley gets the occasional mention, helps to spring Control's trap for the East Germans, appears shadowing Leamas in maybe one or two scenes, and is heard shouting from the other side of the Wall at the end.
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_5f3bb274	type	Late-Arrival Spoiler
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_5f3bb274	comment	Late-Arrival Spoiler: The novel mentions the twist of Call For The Dead quite casually a number of times: that Elsa Fennan, not Samuel, was the East German spy, and that Mundt killed her and her husband.
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_6451e544	type	Commie Nazis
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_6451e544	comment	Commie Nazis: Mundt is a former Nazi who joined the Communists. Judging by the way another minor East German character disparages Jews, he isn't the only one.
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_6a0b03a6	type	One Last Job
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_6a0b03a6	comment	One Last Job: The title refers to Leamas's desire to quit the spy game; he'll be able to "come in from the cold" after he completes this last job.
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_6ec4232f	type	Casting Gag
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_6ec4232f	comment	Casting Gag: Bernard Lee, who played M in the James Bond series (which John le Carré's work was a deliberate refutation of) here plays a grocer who's beaten up as part of a highly amoral operation.
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_73328e84	type	Suicide by Cop
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_73328e84	comment	Suicide by Border Guard: Leamas lets the Volkspolizei shoot him after he sees that Liz is dead. Judging by The Reveal about Mundt's true allegiance, and the sentries' reluctance to fire despite having a clear shot, it's possible that only Liz was supposed to die.
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_7335ffa9	type	Grey-and-Gray Morality
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_7335ffa9	comment	Grey-and-Gray Morality: While the German Democratic Republic is depicted as a brutal, soul-crushing regime, the Circus is willing to do some very nasty things, and the characters note the conflict between stated ends and revealed means. Played straight when referring to the spies themselves. During conversations between Leamas and Fiedler they both observe that although their respective political systems are vastly different, the secret agents fighting the cold war use almost identical methods.
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_733e007a	type	Unwitting Pawn
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_733e007a	comment	Unwitting Pawn: Basically everyone to The Chessmaster, Control. Alec's mission was always meant to end in failure, his meeting Liz was arranged from the beginning (though their falling in love was neither planned nor strictly necessary), and Control and Mundt never intended for Liz (a possible loose end) to leave East Germany alive. It's implied that even George Smiley wasn't wise to that last part.
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_7a143509	type	Shell-Shocked Veteran
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_7a143509	comment	Shell-Shocked Veteran: Leamas served as a British commando during World War II, saw some ghastly things, and occasionally has flashbacks to things like a column of bombed refugees. His problems with alcohol, authority, and lasting relationships are things that real-life veterans suffer from.
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: In the film, after putting down his binoculars, the first thing Leamas does onscreen, before speaking or even turning his face to the camera, is to pour whiskey into his coffee before drinking it.
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_8b67aba7	comment	Cerebus Retcon: Two in this story - one for the previous novels, one for this one revealed much later. At the end of Call For The Dead, Mundt, who was wanted in the UK for two murders, didn't escape from Britain: he was captured by MI-5, got turned, and was released. Peter Guillam even went behind Smiley's back to do it. A Legacy of Spies, which serves as a distant sequel to this book, makes an already bleak book even bleaker - after Alec's death, Bill Haydon told his Soviet handlers that Mundt was a mole, and Mundt disappeared. The entire operation was pointless in the long run.
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: Control justify his deceitful operations, to himself at least, with the belief that the Soviets would employ the same tactics as he would. Later on, Leamas gripes to Liz that spies on both sides of the Iron Curtain are really the same all over (as seen at the header quote).
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_9aef4f64	type	Propping Up Their Patsy
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_9aef4f64	comment	Propping Up Their Patsy: Leamas's mission is to pretend to defect and frame Mundt, the head of East German intelligence, of being a spy for Britain. Leamas is interrogated by Mundt's subordinate Fiedler, who suspects that Mundt is a Double Agent. During the interrogation, Leamas denies that Mundt is a mole, but still gives Fiedler the evidence that seems to point the finger at Mundt. On a grander scale, this is Control's plan. Fiedler is right that Mundt is working for British intelligence. Leamas's testimony was supposed to give Fiedler the evidence to make his accusation. However, Leamas was revealed to be a Fake Defector during the trial. This discredits the accusations against Mundt and makes it look like Fiedler is the one working for British intelligence.
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: The events of Call For The Dead and Smiley's retirement are somewhat important to the plot, and Fielding from A Murder Of Quality is alluded to.
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_a4905771	type	Double-Meaning Title
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_a4905771	comment	Double-Meaning Title: Alec Leamas has to do One Last Job before he can "come in from the cold" and retire. In the end, he chooses to be Together in Death with Liz, and "comes in from the cold" of his years of distrust and lack of human connection.
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_a8660c25	type	Soft-Spoken Sadist
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_a8660c25	comment	Soft-Spoken Sadist: Leamas observes that Mundt has a surprisingly pleasant voice, and Mundt never shouts during their interrogation. In Call For The Dead, he's also polite to George Smiley during their one face-to-face meeting, after which Mundt nearly kills Smiley.
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: Having a former Nazi working for the protagonists, and the Jewish character working for the antagonists, is rather uncomfortable—though, of course, this ties in to the Grey-and-Gray Morality of the story, as Leamas notes that really, neither side is better than the others.
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_ab8bc2fe	type	Agents Dating
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_ab8bc2fe	comment	Agents Dating: An important plot point. Although Liz Gold is not an agent (she's a secretary of a local cell of the Communist Party of Great Britain), her relationship with the head of the West Berlin office of the British Secret Intelligence Service, Alec Leamas, is noteworthy in the context of this trope due to the conflict between love and loyalty from the couple, to the point of Leamas telling all the information in exchange for her freedom. They manage to overcome the issues, albeit at a high price.
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_ace1f7c5	type	WorthyAdversary
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_ace1f7c5	comment	Worthy Adversary: Fiedler again. They get on very well together and like each other as people, though Leamas has the duty to feed him false information.
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_b35e77ee	type	Fake Defector
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_b35e77ee	comment	Fake Defector: Leamas has to pretend to quit the SIS (spectacularly) and defect to the East German Intelligence Service to pull this plan off.
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_b42b7e7b	type	Moral Myopia
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_b42b7e7b	comment	Moral Myopia: Liz/Nan lays into Leamas for his amoral mission having killed a man. Leamas throws back at her that her beloved Communists have quite a bit of blood on their hands, and are the people who turned East Germany into the dystopia that we see in the book.
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_c3448a6f	comment	Informed Attribute: We hear (Leamas's POV) that Fiedler is "a savage little bastard" who nearly tortured at least one captured British agent to death, but he is unfailingly courteous to Leamas. His behavior towards Leamas makes sense, however, because he sees Leamas as a potential weapon to use against Mundt.
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_dc057cf3	type	Adaptation Name Change
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_dc057cf3	comment	Adaptation Name Change: Liz Gold becomes Nan Perry in the movie, supposedly because the studio feared it would be too easy for people to take lines out of context to refer to Burton and his then-wife Elizabeth Taylor.
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: A couple of times during Alec's "breakdown," a short, round, sad-looking man is mentioned as being nearby. It's Smiley.
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_dcbe8a6e	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_dda99fa8	type	Despair Event Horizon
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_dda99fa8	comment	Despair Event Horizon: When Leamas sees Liz's dead body.
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_e70127	type	The Mole
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_e70127	comment	The Mole: Hans-Dieter Mundt.
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_f6b30338	type	Murder Is the Best Solution
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_f6b30338	comment	Murder Is the Best Solution: This is Mundt's MO. He was already a ruthless killer in Call for the Dead, and he hasn't changed in this book. Once takes over the Stasi, he starts summarily executing any Western agent that his men catch in East Germany, and even sends assassins into West Berlin to kill any who might've gotten away. It works: he annihilates Britain's spy network in Berlin, forcing Leamas to return to England in disgrace. He's doing this because he knows that if Fiedler ever captured one alive, his role as a double agent might get exposed.
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_fa83658b	type	Surprise Witness
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_fa83658b	comment	Surprise Witness: Mundt arranged to bring Liz to Germany to discredit Alec.
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_fd4f8299	type	Well-Intentioned Extremist
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: Fiedler in East German intelligence is a True Believer in Communism. He acts as a foil to Mundt, who works for whichever side is on top at the time.
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_fe64d5a1	type	Evil Is Petty
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / int_fe64d5a1	comment	Evil Is Petty: As Leamas is brought up the line to Fiedler, each agent acts in a petty manner to the lower-ranking agent, only to have the same happen to him when he passes on Leamas to their superior.
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold	hasFeature	Agents Dating / int_7798b28a
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold	hasFeature	Checkpoint Charlie / int_7798b28a
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold	hasFeature	Commie Nazis / int_7798b28a
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold	hasFeature	Defector from Commie Land / int_7798b28a
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold	hasFeature	English Literature / int_7798b28a
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold	hasFeature	Mole in Charge / int_7798b28a
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold	hasFeature	Neutral Evil / int_7798b28a
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold	hasFeature	Propping Up Their Patsy / int_7798b28a
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold	hasFeature	Suicide by Cop / int_7798b28a
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold	hasFeature	The Noun Who Verbed / int_7798b28a
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold	hasFeature	You Can Leave Your Hat On / int_7798b28a

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